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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these student government officials from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. That means GSSC was meeting as soon as school restarted, planning out this next semester. Student government bureau chief Joe Milholland reports on what, exactly, these plans consist of. The first day of […]
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Chinese President Xi Xinping began his first visit to the Middle East yesterday. His visits to various countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia should affirm its growing thirst for Middle Eastern petroleum. (Yahoo). French President Francois Hollande declared an economic “state of emergency” yesterday to address stagnant unemployment in France. His efforts to create jobs […]
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This is it.  After weeks of anxious temperature-watching, our thermometers have dropped below thirty at last. And, you know what? We hate it. Bwog writer Betsy Ladyzhets explains why our current weather situation is a. terrible, and b. definitely the work of sadistic weather gods. After months of torturous back-and-forth between almost-cold weather and balmy wannabe-beach […]
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Tired of Spec flyers plastered all over your door? Found yourself writing puns while bored in CC? Got a poetically written, kind-of creepy poem about your favorite campus statue scrawled in a notebook somewhere? If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, we have some incredible news: Bwog might just be the place for […]
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Tonight, the University is holding a candlelight vigil to honor Olivia Erhardt, CC ’18, Daniella Moffson, BC ’17, and Abigail Flanagan, a nurse practitioner at the Columbia University Medical Center and a General Studies student, who were killed in a bus accident in Honduras last Wednesday while volunteering for the Columbia chapter of Global Brigades. The […]
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It’s true, classes have barely started – but, as the indefinable They governing our colloquial expressions say, only three things in life are inevitable: death, taxes, and weird professors. In this first week, the realm of syllabi and awkward silences, many of your professors probably haven’t planned out lectures beyond reading over a typo-ridden document […]
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It may be cold enough to freeze your coffee inside its not-particularly-well-insulated Starbucks cup, but that’s not about to stop your new professors from piling you with work. But this semester is going to be The Semester – the one when you finally get ahead in your classes, find a cool paid internship, and figure out the secret […]
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An accident occurred earlier today in Honduras involving students on the Columbia Medical Brigade trip. A passenger bus carrying 30 students and adult volunteers to the Toncontín International Airport drove off a Honduras highway into a ravine. All of the passengers were affiliated with the Columbia Medical Brigade. Three passengers are confirmed dead and eight are in critical […]
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Yesterday afternoon, Columbia College released the names of the 23 members of the Class of 2016 being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa for the Fall term. Of the 10% of the senior class who will be inducted into the national honor society this year, these 23 students make up just 2%; the other 8% will be inducted […]
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To our readers: it’s been a minute since the academic year began, but you have finally made it to the (halfway) finish. Congratulations! I thank you for standing by us this semester. Though these past four months have been seemingly mild, I appreciate your loyal readership nonetheless. I would also like to take this opportunity […]
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Like most schools, Columbia has a somewhat propagandist social media presence (like, where do they find all those pictures of smiling students?). Yesterday, to that end, Columbia’s Facebook page posted a “reminder of what a winter day should look like on campus”– you mean, because it’s so warm? Or because snow in NYC seems to immediately turn […]
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As our semester draws to a close, we (as most Columbia students tend to do) are already looking to the new year. As you make your way home for the holidays, remember to take time this vacation to relax and realign (or something…do we sound like a Soul Cycle instructor?). Here’s a list of our […]
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